Rebel Sisters
“On the Western Front they were mown down by rapid-action German machine guns or by poisonous gas, dying in rows where they fell.
‘I cannot bear it, to hear of so many killed in such a cowardly fashion using gas,’ Isabella cried angrily. ‘How can the Germans commit such atrocities against their fellow man?’ Frederick read the newspapers almost obsessively as details emerged of the slaughter of the Irish battalion as they landed on V beach in Gallipoli in late April, trying to make it to the shore under heavy Turkish machine-gun fire.
‘Those poor young lads stood no chance,’ he said, shaking his head. ‘Why would Churchill and General Hamilton give such orders?’ The streets of the city and of many Irish towns were now filled with widows dressed in mourning and children wearing black armbands as more and more families were bereaved. They collected the supplementary allowance that the army paid weekly to all widows and their children. Isabella pitied those young wives and stoical mothers d...ressed in black as they tried to go through the day-to-day motions of their lives.MoreLess
‘I cannot bear it, to hear of so many killed in such a cowardly fashion using gas,’ Isabella cried angrily. ‘How can the Germans commit such atrocities against their fellow man?’ Frederick read the newspapers almost obsessively as details emerged of the slaughter of the Irish battalion as they landed on V beach in Gallipoli in late April, trying to make it to the shore under heavy Turkish machine-gun fire.
‘Those poor young lads stood no chance,’ he said, shaking his head. ‘Why would Churchill and General Hamilton give such orders?’ The streets of the city and of many Irish towns were now filled with widows dressed in mourning and children wearing black armbands as more and more families were bereaved. They collected the supplementary allowance that the army paid weekly to all widows and their children. Isabella pitied those young wives and stoical mothers d...ressed in black as they tried to go through the day-to-day motions of their lives.MoreLess
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